CoTradeCo considering implementing OPEN ID…what do you think?
Gizmo T. Jakpor 7 months ago // 2 responses // Potluck CoTradeCo news, comments, and requests

In the past weeks the subject of OPEN ID has been coming up more and more. The development team here at CoTradeCo considers it a good move into the future and vast improvement of the internet in general. We would like to be an early-ish adopter of this exciting new technology. But we were curious if any of you had an OPEN ID already, if you’d even heard of it, and if you had, what you thought about it.

What is OPEN ID?

From the OPEN ID official site:

OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.

You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust. At the same time, your OpenID can stay with you, no matter which Provider you move to. And best of all, the OpenID technology is not proprietary and is completely free.

For businesses, this means a lower cost of password and account management, while drawing new web traffic. OpenID lowers user frustration by letting users have control of their login.

For geeks, OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. OpenID takes advantage of already existing internet technology (URI, HTTP, SSL, Diffie-Hellman) and realizes that people are already creating identities for themselves whether it be at their blog, photostream, profile page, etc. With OpenID you can easily transform one of these existing URIs into an account which can be used at sites which support OpenID logins.

OpenID is still in the adoption phase and is becoming more and more popular, as large organizations like AOL, Microsoft, Sun, Novell, etc. begin to accept and provide OpenIDs. Today it is estimated that there are over 160-million OpenID enabled URIs with nearly ten-thousand sites supporting OpenID logins.

Are you ready?

With the conveniences and potential new interactions that new web tools could bring to the internet and the human experience, we are excited to move forward with this. Feel free to email or post your responses here in the community blog.

And if you have an OPEN ID, please let us know. I realize that if we had already implemented it here, you as a visitor might be more likely to sign up and tell us, since it would be so dang easy and painless. But even if you don’t have the time to sign up here today, please email us and let us know your thoughts on OPEN ID.

Everything we do at CoTradeCo, we are attempting to build a better world and better human relationships, and help others succeed. Like any company we want to make a profit, but our underlying motives speak to a bigger, better, and more exciting world beyond short term profit goals.

Thanks for your thoughts and participation in advance.

For more information:

Please visit the OPENID.net website